| 词汇 | shake-down |
| 释义 | shake someone downphrasal verb with shakeverbuk /ʃeɪk/ us /ʃeɪk/shook | shaken USinformal to get money from someone by using threats or tricks勒索，敲诈 Cheating & tricking anti-fraud bad faith bamboozle bilk blackmail deceive diddle feint flannel funny business game-fixing grift grifter gull gyp prankishly prankster pretext pretextual pull shake someone/somewhere downphrasal verb with shakeverbuk /ʃeɪk/ us /ʃeɪk/shook | shaken USinformal to search a person or place carefully, usually in order to find things that are stolen or illegal: （通常为查获赃物或违禁品）彻底搜查 We can't shake down the whole building - only the suspect's apartment.我们不可能把整栋楼都搜个遍——只能搜查嫌疑犯的公寓。 Searching beachcomb beachcomber beachcombing body search bounty hunter comb hunt someone/something down hunter hunting ground keep your/an eye out for someone/somethingidiom leave no stone unturnedidiom lookout needle scout scratch around for something scrounge around search seek someone/something out seeker troll shake downphrasal verb with shakeverbuk /ʃeɪk/ us /ʃeɪk/shook | shaken informal to become organized or established after a period of change: 安顿下来；调整就绪 Give the new arrangements time to shake down - I'm sure they'll be OK.新的安排要经过一段时间才能调整过来——我相信会令人满意的。 Classifying and creating order alphabetize anti-hierarchical arrange arrangement arranger concordance describe macrocosm miscatalogue misclassification misclassify miscode mislabel pigeonhole short-list shortlist sort sort something out spring-clean unstructured shake down someone | American Dictionaryshake down someonephrasal verb with shakeverbus/ʃeɪk/past tenseshookus/ʃʊk/ | past participleshakenus/ˈʃeɪ·kən/ infml to get money from someone by using threats: They tried to shake him down for five bucks. shake down | Business Englishshake downphrasal verb with shakeverb[ T ]uk /ʃeɪk/us [ I ] if a new system or situation shakes down, it begins to work normally: The new IT network is still causing delays but is expected to shake down by year end. shake sb downphrasal verb with shakeverb[ T ]uk /ʃeɪk/us USinformal to force someone to give you money: He was accused of shaking down small business owners in his district. They throw big parties to shake down sponsors. |
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